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... He saw their sister on her duty stand ; Some twelve years old , demure , affected , sly , Prepared the force of early powers to try ; Sudden a look of languor he descries , And well - feign'd apprehension in her eyes ; Train'd but ...
... He saw their sister on her duty stand ; Some twelve years old , demure , affected , sly , Prepared the force of early powers to try ; Sudden a look of languor he descries , And well - feign'd apprehension in her eyes ; Train'd but ...
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CXLVII For still he lay , and on his thin worn cheek A purple hectic play'd like dying day On the snow - tops of distant hills ; the streak Of sufferance yet upon his forehead lay , Where the blue veins look'd shadowy , shrunk , and ...
CXLVII For still he lay , and on his thin worn cheek A purple hectic play'd like dying day On the snow - tops of distant hills ; the streak Of sufferance yet upon his forehead lay , Where the blue veins look'd shadowy , shrunk , and ...
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Still oft those solemn scenes I view In rapt and dreamy sadness ; Oft look on those who loved them too With Fancy's idle gladness ; Again I longed to view the light In Nature's features glowing ; Again to tread the mountain's height ...
Still oft those solemn scenes I view In rapt and dreamy sadness ; Oft look on those who loved them too With Fancy's idle gladness ; Again I longed to view the light In Nature's features glowing ; Again to tread the mountain's height ...
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Contents
CHARLES SACKVILLE EARL OF DORSET 16381706 | 1 |
ANNE COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA ?16601720 | 10 |
WILLIAM CONGREVE 16701729 | 19 |
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| Title | The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to Keats Volume 2 of The Oxford Library of English Poetry, John Wain |
| Editor | John Wain |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1986 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 23 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0192122460, 9780192122469 |
| Length | 511 pages |
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